Re: a note about strerror_r

[Bruno Haible]

On 2010-11-09 I wrote:
> glibc also has a second function __xpg_strerror_r, which it enables under
> the name strerror_r when _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined to 200112L. But this
> function is also not POSIX compliant, as I've just reported:
>   <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12204>

This bug will be fixed in glibc 2.13. Here's the doc update.


2010-12-25  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        strerror_r-posix: Update doc.
        * doc/posix-functions/strerror_r.texi: Update doc about the return
        value. See <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12204>.

--- doc/posix-functions/strerror_r.texi.orig    Sun Dec 26 02:00:22 2010
+++ doc/posix-functions/strerror_r.texi Sun Dec 26 01:55:43 2010
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 @item
 When this function fails, it returns -1 and sets @code{errno}, instead of
 returning the error number, on some platforms:
-glibc 2.8 with @code{-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L}, AIX 6.1, OSF/1 5.1.
+glibc 2.12 with @code{-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L}, AIX 6.1, OSF/1 5.1.
 @item
 This function does not support the error values that are specified by POSIX
 but not defined by the system, on some platforms: